Funny, strange, confrontational and subversive, this is one of the most interesting experiences you'll have at the cinema this year.

The acting in this movie is really good.

Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

I have to hand it to Gary Oldman for toughing it out to finish this movie; because, I could see it in his eyes, he hated working this film. I, too, hated this flick. The torture and abuse on the screen, while disingenuously hidden from the viewer — we only actually see Ving Rhames' reaction to a video of his sister's brutal sodomy-rape by two Chinese guys, and there's some kind of contrived flashback of Gary Oldman's retarded kid brother taking the rap as a cop- killer — pales in comparison to the EDITORIAL TORTURE heaped upon the audience.Seriously, this movie tries your patience. Whoever was cutting this film lingered too long on mundane scenes and then ZIPPED to improbable action scenes, until I was blurting, "Oh, come ON!" every few seconds. Let's just disregard the horrible costumes and hairstyles and deliberately bad dialogue — I mean, it MUST BE deliberate, right, it must be a premeditatedly bad script — and tell me WHERE Ving Rhames is supposed to be exacting vengeance on Gary Oldman?Tell me.Ving has Gary point-blank in his sights in the evil headquarters, right, then BOOM there's a scuffle and BOOM there's a night-time car chase in the city and BOOM now they're out of the city and it's daylight in the desert and BOOM suddenly Gary Oldman's car is sinking in quicksand.Hey, all of that transpires in less than two minutes, okay? Oh, yeah, I get it, I get the poetic justice of death by quicksand over a bullet in the — NO, I DON'T GET IT!!! I don't understand why or how this ending was slopped together. It's like the film editor was doing jello-shots.I can hear the ENTIRE AUDIENCE moaning, their trust and credulity exhausted. Mercifully, Ving decides to shoot Gary Oldman's head sticking up out of the quicksand, but only AFTER insisting that Gary recite "Death Be Not Proud," okay?Is that enough abuse? Not abuse of the actors on screen — God knows Ving and Gary were probably drinking themselves to sleep every night during production — but I mean abuse heaped upon the audience, cringing in their seats. If this hasn't been nominated as one of the WORST movies of all time, it should be.

Sin is one of those films that can promises a lot with a cast like Gary Oldman and Ving Rhames squaring off but sadly the film never really goes as deep as I felt it could . At the end of the day it is a basic revenge film which kind of incorporates an Oldboy style formula in it but that really does not seem to pick off so much . On the whole I was not entirely disappointed with this film as it did keep entertained through its course , Oldman stays on top with his fine form and Rhames also does good but could be better . If modern day spaghetti western flicks are your thing then check it out otherwise nothing new here which makes this film essential viewing but worth a rent or check it out if its on TV .

Its a wee bit of a shame. The whole film had a terrific idea to it and I liked the twist in the plot on why Charlie Strom (Gary Oldman) was after Eddie Burns (Ving Rhames) and we see a side to Charlie of being a tortured soul out for revenge rather than a villain (this is not an excuse on the things he did to Burns' sister but it was still a nice touch). The whole thing though was flat and a wee bit too predictable.The only actor who stood out was Gary Oldman (who was the only reason I watched this film- otherwise I wouldnt have bothered!) Ill watch it again but only because Gary does a good part in it..... and nothing else. 6/10

Much of the film content of "Sin" is excessively violent and unpleasant. The screenwriters have also shamelessly recycled one of the classic screen thriller moments from the hall of mirrors scene in "The Lady From Shanghai." And was it not possible to come up with a more imaginative title than "Sin"? Yet there is one compelling reason to see this movie, and that is for the performances of Ving Rhames and Gary Oldman.In the same way that the film "Heat" established a dynamic duel between Al Pacino's detective and Robert DeNiro's thief, the most interesting scenes in "Sin" are those that bring together the ex-cop (Rhames) and the sleazy drug lord (Oldman). The plot concerns the maniacal acts perpetrated by Oldman's character, who is pursued by Rhames' character, the former cop who lost part of his arm and all of his idealism after a shady police arrest and illegal interrogation of an alleged cop-killer.There is one riveting moment when in the middle of an action scene, the characters discourse on the topic of conscience. In this conversation, our perception of both Rhames' and Oldman's characters change when we realize that one of the characters is totally without conscience and the other has been driven by the human emotion of guilt. But this moment remains buried among predictable and even cliched action scenes piled one on top of another.If the film could have just focused on the internal development of the two principal characters, eliminating the violent action sequences, it would have been more watchable and more memorable. There is something special about these two exceptional actors, however, that enables Rhames and Oldman to rise above the material.